I have to tell you I can imagine how you must feel. You more than anyone else I've seen have put your heart and soul into Steem. I'm sorry this all went down the way it did. It did hurt a little to convert my Steem to Hive but I am ready to move on. I know that's easier for me to say that it is for you as I have been disengaged from Steem for so long.
If you plan to eventually convert all your Steem to Hive I might suggest doing the conversion weekly as you get your powerdowns paid out. That way you may reduce the risk by dollar cost averaging through it. I think Hive has a much better chance of going up than Steem.
If you are considering alternative investments I think Bitcoin and Ethereum are good.
Hey, @bbrewer.
You know me all to well, sir!
That's a good idea as far cost averaging things. I guess I should have started doing that as soon as the STEEM came available.
As far as going to BTC or ETH, I guess I can do that with Blocktrades, right? Keep it simple, since there's Coinbase doesn't have a STEEM pair and I don't think it's back up and running on Bittrex yet.
I've only dabbled a little in this token trading stuff. Very low risk. Bitcoin seems more bigtime. And I guess it takes forever compared to STEEM for it to transact? What about ETH? Is it slow too?
Both are much slower than we are used to with Steem and Hive, and EOS for me, and have some fees that are no fun to pay. I'd only do it if you want to hold them long term. I am starting to dig Blocktrades as that is what I used to convert Steem to Hive. It was super easy. I think I will be using it more going forward and think it would work good for BTC and ETH.